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I could always disappear into live jazz. Live jazz has been a wonderful addiction that I have never been able to shake. Players with...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Oct 7, 2019
- 8 min
WE GOT RHYTHM?
This coming week trumpeter Walt Szymanski will be playing at the Dirty Dog Jazz Café. Walt is exactly like what a Walt Szymanski should...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jul 22, 2019
- 7 min
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Every year I get away from home for a few weeks. I have found a place or two where I can take some time to look around at my...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Mar 18, 2019
- 5 min
GEORGE ” SAX ” BENSON
Just over a week ago Willie Jones passed a note to a visiting pianist from New York, Emmet Cohen. Emmet then informed a sold out audience...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Feb 25, 2019
- 6 min
LOFTY PLACES
Photo from The Japan Times JAZZ JOURNALIST KYOSHI KOYAMA This week I read of the passing of Kiyoshi Koyama. Kiyoshi Koyama isn’t a name...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Feb 4, 2019
- 3 min
FEBRRRUARY
RANDY NAPOLEON VERSUS THE POLAR VORTEX Something called the polar vortex sent dangerously cold weather into the north central states last...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Dec 17, 2018
- 4 min
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS WEEK As the holidays loom and undone tasks build. it would be easy to slip into grumpiness. We will have to...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Dec 10, 2018
- 3 min
DETROIT JAZZ, A HOLIDAY STORY
DETROIT JAZZ, THE BOOK One of Detroit’s greatest assets is her first class hard working musicians. Jazz drifted up the Mississippi River...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Nov 12, 2018
- 4 min
STAFF
GETTING ALONG TOGETHER IN NOVEMBER On these cold November evenings the Dirty Dog must assemble a staff that has rid themselves of any...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Oct 22, 2018
- 3 min
FRIENDS
FRIENDS The Charles Boles Quartet is a band that has a healthy accumulation of experiences and stories from life and from being jazz...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Aug 27, 2018
- 3 min
A MOVING EXPERIENCE
THIS WEEK THE DIRTY DOG JAZZ CAFÉ IS CLOSED AND MOVING TO BE PART OF DETROIT’S GREAT JAZZ FESTIVAL Why would the smart gang at the Dirty...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Aug 15, 2018
- 4 min
CHARLES
Charles Boles A week ago I wrote a blog about my memories of jazz. I included a story that the great Detroit jazz pianist Charles Boles...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jul 23, 2018
- 5 min
MEMORIES
As we go through life we all have memories of both delicious and dreadful moments. We have fond thoughts when we hear the music that was...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jul 9, 2018
- 5 min
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Resilient is a word that is often used to describe Detroit....
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jun 25, 2018
- 6 min
June 25 CREATIVE PROCESS – SHARING
THE FINAL STAGE OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS: SHARING YOUR ART Once an artist has put his final touches on a piece of art he is faced with a...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jun 11, 2018
- 4 min
THE CREATIVE PROCESS – EDITING
Separating the good stuff from the stuff that isn’t needed is the hardest task in the creative process, but editing makes things better....
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jun 4, 2018
- 4 min
OBSERVING
THE CREATIVE PROCESS Jazz musicians, painters, writers and all artists have their own approach to creating. Last week I described what my...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- May 28, 2018
- 5 min
EXPLORING
For a very long time I have been fascinated by the ability of jazz musicians to create new music on the fly and make it look easy. We all...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- May 14, 2018
- 3 min
BACK HALL
Dave Bennett will bring his band to The Dirty Dog this week. Before the lights are turned down and the music begins, the Dirty Dog Jazz...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- May 7, 2018
- 4 min
PASSION OF TEACHERS
ARTS PROGRAMS TO THE RESCUE We can be deeply but quietly affected by passion, or get carried away. but it sure helps to have a little in...
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